Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Age Quotes

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

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Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

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In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

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Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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